Institute for Market Economics Publications

IME has translated and published several books among which:

• Eric Hoffer, The True Believer;
• James D. Gwartney and Richard L. Stroup, What Everyone Should Know about Economics and Prosperity,
• Irving Crespi, Public Opinion, Polls and Democracy,
• Charles Wolf Jr., Markets or Governments: Choosing Between Imperfect Alternatives,
• Hans-Jorg Thieme. Sozialle Marktwirtschaft.

IME presented 1999 report under the auspices of the Regional Networking Project, funded by the USAID with the kind support from Freedom House

• Conditions for Long-term Growth and Prosperity in the Balkans - In Search of Growth: Bulgaria's Lessons and Policy Options.
  

IME papers presented on the International Conference Foreign Investment, Transparency and Economic Growth (Sofia, Sheraton Hotel, 22 October 1998) sponsored by the National Endowment for Democracy and American Standard Companies Inc.

• Privatization Schemes and Property Transfer
• Bureaus, Investment and Honest Policies
• Transparency of Tax Regulations and Costs of Compliance

IME publishes a monthly newsletter ( available in PDF format for download ).

Books published by IME staff members:

• Securities: How to Trade Them with Profit (1993 and 1994) by Ivanka Petkova;
• Bonds (1995) by Slavcho Parushev;
• The Balkans divided : Nationalism, Minotiries, and secutity (1997) by Adnrey Ivanov.
• UNDP - Human Development Report - Bulgaria 1998 (1998) Ed. Adnrey Ivanov.available online

IME and the Media - for more information about IME presence in the press, TV, Radio and news-agencies

Publications by IME authors :

• THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACT OF REFUGEES ON THE HOST COUNTRY: BULGARIA 22p.
• LEGAL AND REGULATORY REFORM. IMPACTS ON PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH, 45p.
• Reducing Barriers in the Bulgarian Securities Market, by Dr. Ivanka Petkova (English), 22 p.;
• External Financing of the Bulgarian Economy During Transition by Dr. Ivanka Petkova (English), 12 p.;
• The Bulgarian Banking Sector Reform, by Dr. Ivanka Petkova (German), 13 p.;
• Government Debt Management (Proceeding from the Seminar Involving Government Officials and Private Banks and Brokerage Houses; October 1995 (Bulgarian), edited by Galina Dimitrova, 200 p.;
• Deposit Insurance Schemes, by Georgi Georgiev (German), 35 p.;
• Fiscal Decentralization in Bulgaria, by Dimiter Tovev (English), 17 p.l;
• Investment and Savings in the Bulgarian Economy: the Contribution of the Informal, by Rossen Rozenov (English), 24 p., reprinted by Bulgarian National Bank, Monthly Bulletin, N6, 1996;
• Comparative Advantage and Subsidies in the Bulgarian Economy, by Dr. Ognian Pishev and Valentin Chavdarov (English), 11 p.;
• Bulgarian Agriculture - Problems and Perspectives by Margarita Michailova, Nedka Ivanova, and Charina Vicheva (English), 50 p.;
• Setting up New Farmers and the Situation of Private Farming in CEE Countries: the Case of Bulgaria, by Dr. Diana Kopeva (English), 13 p.;
• Business Associations in the Current Bulgarian Environment, by Dr. Krassen Stanchev (English/Bulgarian), 12 p.;
• The Most Viable Business Associations in Bulgaria: An Assessment Made by the Institute for Market Economics, by Dr. Krassen Stanchev (English/Bulgarian), 20 p., available 2nd week of September ;
• Barriers to Free Enterprise: An Empirical Survey, by Dr. Krassen Stanchev and Dr. Docho Michailov (English), 12 p.;
• Finance Policies in Bulgaria: 1991-1996, by Dr. Mariella Nenova, Dr. Nikolina Micheva, Tzvetan Manchev and Alexander Michailov (Bulgarian/English), 170 p.;
• The Symptoms and Causes of the 1996 Financial and Banking Crisis, by Galina Dimitrova (English), 16 p;
• Comtent Analysis of the Bulgarian Custom Tariff and Regulations, 300 p.